[MPlayer-users] My experience with Maxtor 160GB, LVM, XFS

[Diego Zuccato]

Stephen Davies wrote:

> Its quite reasonable to use LVM to abstract your disks and then md or
> whatever for raid.
Uhm... Maybe it's not too useful... RAID works better if it can handle
the physical device...
Since I'm not going to repartition the system (one 175G RAID5 partition
for the data, a 60G RAID0 for saving the stream, another disk on another
channel for the system), I think I won't use LVM.
I'll probably use two 30G disks w/ sw RAID0 (striping) to get best write
performance and save the uncompressed stream (at 16MB/s I can save up to
aboun 1hour of full-quality video...). Then, onche the acquisition is
stopped, I'll compress it to the 175GB RAID5...
The Athlon900 I'm thinking to buy should be enough to handle 16MB/s on
RAID0... Maybe even a slower cpu could be enough... Well, I'll first try
the P200MMX :-)

> I do know that with the combination of LVM and XFS my disks never seem to
> do anything but loaf in my digital video application.  Even when capturing
> several video streams at once whilst playing back another I see only the
> occasional disk access.
Is there a good video editing app for Linux ? Broadcast2000 worked only
for MPGs (and I couldn't ever understand how to use it :-((( ).

BYtE,
 Diego.